Her woman's mind was not only the directing intelligence, it was as eccentric as quicksilver, infinitely supple and corrupt, Oriental in its trickishness and impenetrability.

There was nothing oriental about her.

But the trials of Paul in Ephesus, the capital of Asia Minor, the most celebrated of all the Ionian cities,"more Hellenic than Antioch, more Oriental than Corinth, more wealthy than Thessalonica, more populous than Athens,"were incessant and discouraging, since it was the headquarters of pagan superstitions, and of all forms of magical imposture.

LE HULLA, conte lyrique oriental en 4 actes.

An officer of any Power who travels in a cattle truck will not only lose the respect of the Oriental for his own person, but will lower the standard of the country he represents, irrespective of its position in the comity of nations.

That's the Oriental of it.

It is easy to see how to the African mind the magistrate may appear like an Oriental cadi, and how he may be led to carry out his work as submissively as would the Oriental under similar circumstances.

Almousely is considered by the Orientals as the most celebrated musician that ever flourished in the world.

The Turks, and indeed the Orientals in general, have few images of voluptuousness without the richest flowers contributing towards them.

Other Orientals like Alexander, who wrote the history of Syria and the Jews, and Timagenes, historian of the Diadochi, do not happen to be reported from Naples, but we may safely assume that most of them spent whatever leisure time they could there.

Presently he paused at a picture which represented in glaring detail a stricken battlefield strewn with dead and dying Orientals of vivid costume.

The non-smoking Saxons were probably far more intemperate in drinking than the modern English; and Lane, the best authority, points out that wine is now far less used by the Orientals than at the time of the "Arabian Nights," when tobacco had not been introduced.

[Footnote A: I am not here discussing the unrestricted admission of Orientals under present economic conditions.

Again and again are their bodily charms dwelt on rapturously, as is customary in the poems of all Orientals with all sorts of quaint hyperbolic comparisons, some of which are poetic, others grotesque.

I would have these, moreover, as purely oriental as possible with a careful avoidance of anything that might be European in their appearance and arrangements.

The former knows San Francisco Chinatown, the latter is acquainted with the Oriental at home.

She accepted the city-state as the municipal unit of the Roman Empire, thrust back the Oriental behind the Euphrates, and promoted the Hellenization of all the lands between this river-frontier and the Balkans with much greater intensity than the Macedonian imperialists.

" Bedient trailed the soft-footed oriental through the bewildering hall, until he saw Señor Rey standing in a doorwayand behind him a low-lit arcanum of leather and metal....

This may have been a vanity, but after all it was a good sturdy one, worthy of a gentleman who could not say "the sun was setting," but who could and did say "our occidental rays of Phoebus were upon their turning oriental to the other hemisphere of the terrestrial globe."